How to Deploy Laravel Applications to AWS with Nanobox

A simple, step-by-step walkthrough for configuring and deploying a Laravel application to Amazon Web Services (AWS) using Nanobox. …

Posted in Laravel, PHP, AWS

How to Deploy Python Applications to Linode Using Nanobox

A simple, step-by-step walkthrough for configuring and deploying a Python application to Linode using Nanobox. …

Posted in Python, Linode

Creating Custom MySQL Users & Databases with Nanobox

How to automatically create custom MySQL users and databases whenever using and deploying MySQL with Nanobox. …

Posted in MySQL

How to Deploy Flask Applications to Vultr Using Nanobox

A simple, step-by-step walkthrough for configuring and deploying a Flask application to Vultr using Nanobox. …

Posted in Flask, Python, Vultr

How to Deploy Django Applications to Google Cloud Platform with Nanobox

A simple, step-by-step walkthrough for configuring and deploying a Django application to Google Cloud Platform using Nanobox. …

Posted in Django, Python, GCP, Google Compute

How to Deploy Django Applications to DigitalOcean Using Nanobox

A simple, step-by-step walkthrough for configuring and deploying a Django application to DigitalOcean using Nanobox. …

Posted in Django, Python, DigitalOcean

Amazon EC2 Pricing - Estimating Your Hosting Costs

The Nanobox platform and application management dashboard allow tech companies to more easily understand and estimate their hosting costs. …

Posted in AWS, EC2, Hosting Costs, Reserved Instances, Spot Instances, Dedicated Hosts, On-Demand Billing

How to Deploy Django Applications to AWS Using Nanobox

A simple, step-by-step walkthrough for configuring and deploying a Django application to AWS using Nanobox. …

Posted in Python, AWS, Django

How to Deploy Django Applications to Vultr with Nanobox

A simple, step-by-step walkthrough for configuring and deploying a Django application to Vultr using Nanobox. …

Posted in Django, Python, Vultr

AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud: Mapping Cloud Solutions Among Providers

Nanobox Commoditizes the Cloud One of the key benefits of Nanobox is that our platform essentially commoditizes the cloud. Using Nanobox to develop and deploy your application makes it easy to switch between …

Posted in AWS, Google Public Cloud, Azure, SoftLayer, Cloud Providers

The Developer Manifesto

You Are an Artisan, Not an Engineer An engineer makes something work. You are more than that. You are an artisan. Artisans practice a craft and may, through experience and aptitude, reach the …

Posted in Nanobox, Development, Developer Stories

How to Deploy Django Applications to Linode Using Nanobox

A simple, step-by-step walkthrough for configuring and deploying a Django application to Linode using Nanobox. …

Posted in Django, Python, Linode

Using phpMyAdmin to Manage Local Databases

It's crazy to think about – phpMyAdmin has been around for almost 20 years now. For many, it is the tool for managing MySQL and MySQL-like databases (MariaDB, Percona, etc.). In this article, I'm …

Posted in PHP, phpMyAdmin, MySQL

DevOps for Startups: Should Your Developers Be Talking About Docker and Kubernetes?

Building a technology startup is tricky. When your model for business success depends upon having a team of people put together tens of thousands of lines of code that, based on your experience …

Posted in DevOps

Can Teenage Kids Be Legitimate Coders?

Recently I attended the first annual Code to Success celebration lunch, a Tech Community Luncheon event put on by Silicon Slopes. The luncheon recognized the efforts of over 400 junior high and high …

Work Behind The Scenes – Using Background Workers

One of the major selling points of Pagoda Box (the forerunner to Nanobox), for me, was the distinction between web components and worker components. This is fairly standard practice, now, with PaaS (and …

Posted in Architecture, Workers, Jobs, Background Tasks

Heroku Buildpack Equivalents for Python, Rails, Other Languages Supported by Nanobox

Web developers and their peers have become increasingly familiar over the past decade with Heroku's Platform as a Service (PaaS) product as a convenient way to deploy applications to the cloud and manage …

Posted in Heroku, buildpacks

PHP Development Environments for Windows, Linux, Mac Programming

PHP and Nanobox PHP is a versatile programming language used primarily for server-side scripting to develop web applications, although it can also be used to for command line scripting and even writing desktop …

Posted in PHP

Semaphore & Nanobox - Continuous Integration the Easy Way

Semaphore is a continuous integration (CI) platform that runs your automated code tests and triggers specific actions based on the results. This article walks through how to use Nanobox and Semaphore to test …

Posted in Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Semaphore

Python Development Environment for Mac, Windows, and Linux Programming

Nanobox is a development platform that was built to empower web developers, allowing them to focus on creating amazing apps without having to deal with configuration and distracting infrastructure details. Our platform fully …

Craft CMS 3 (Beta) with Nanobox

A few weeks ago, I explained how to launch a Craft CMS site using Nanobox. In that article, I mentioned I'd be doing a walkthrough for Craft CMS 3, which is currently in …

Posted in PHP, Craft CMS

Designer to Developer, Bridging the Great Divide – Developer Stories

I'll be honest, I still have a hard time referring to myself as a developer. When it comes to code, I still feel like a noob. My formal education had me knee-deep in …

Posted in Developer Stories

Python virtualenv Environments Versus Nanobox Isolated Dev Environments

What is virtualenv? virtualenv is a tool that was created by the Python Packaging Authority to allow Python developers to keep the respective development environments they're using for various projects isolated from each …

Posted in virtualenv, Python, local development

How to Deploy Flask Applications to DigitalOcean Using Nanobox

A simple, step-by-step walkthrough for configuring and deploying a Flask application to DigitalOcean using Nanobox. …

Posted in Flask, Python, DigitalOcean

How to Deploy Flask Applications to AWS Using Nanobox

A simple, step-by-step walkthrough for configuring and deploying a Flask application to Amazon Web Services (AWS) using Nanobox. …

Posted in Python, AWS, Flask